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Carlos Finlay

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Name: Carlos Juan Finlay
Birth Date: December 3, 1833
Death Date: August 20, 1915
Place of Birth: Camagüey Province, Cuba
Place of Death: Havana, Cuba
Nationality: Cuban
Gender: Male
Occupations: physician, epidemiologist

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Biography of Carlos Juan Finlay
1,000 words, approx. 3 pages
Carlos Juan Finlay was a Cuban physician and biologist, who, in 1881, suggested that yellow fever, an acute febrile illness fatal to half its victims, was transmitted by mosquitoes. His theory, confirmed in 1900 by the American surgeon Walter Reed, led...
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Biography of Carlos Juan Finlay
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The Cuban physician and epidemiologist Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915) discovered that certain mosquitoes transmit yellow fever. Carlos Juan Finlay was born in Camagüey Province on Dec. 3, 1833, of a Scottish father and a French mother. He spent...


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Carlos Juan Finlay Summary
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1833-1915 Cuban Physician, Epidemiologist and Public Health Reformer Although the American physician Walter Reed (1851-1902) is generally associated with the discovery of the means of transmission of yellow fever, it was the Cuban physician Carlos Juan...
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Finlay, Carlos J.
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(born , Dec. 3, 1833, Puerto Príncipe, Cuba—died Aug. 20, 1915, Havana) Cuban epidemiologist who discovered that yellow fever is transmitted from infected to healthy humans by a mosquito. Although he published experimental evidence of this...
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Finlay, Carlos J(Uan)
100 words, approx. 1 pages
(born Dec. 3, 1833, Puerto Príncipe, Cuba—died Aug. 20, 1915, Havana) Cuban epidemiologist. He is known for his discovery that yellow fever is transmitted by a mosquito. Though he published experimental evidence in 1886, his ideas were...
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Carlos Finlay Information
447 words, approx. 2 pages
Carlos Juan Finlay (December 3 1833 – August 20 1915, Havana), was a Cuban physician and scientist. Finlay was born Juan Carlos Finlay in Puerto Principe, Cuba of French and Scottish descent. He changed his name to Carlos Juan Finlay later in his...


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Military Medicine
Biography of Dr. Carlos Juan Finlay
09/01/2001: 525 words, approx. 2 pages
Carlos Juan Finlay was born in Cuba on December 3, 1833. His physician father was a Scotsman who owned a coffee plantation; his mother was a native of France. At age 11, he went to Europe to study but had to return home on...
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Military Medicine
Carlos Finlay and Yellow Fever: Triumph over Adversity
10/01/2005: 4,072 words, approx. 14 pages
The eradication of yellow fever in Havana, Cuba, was achieved by a fruitful collaboration between American and Cuban physicians. Carlos Finlay, a Cuban physician who proposed the mosquito-vector theory in 1881, shared his ideas, his publications, and a sample of mosquito eggs with the...
 


 

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